{"id":199065,"date":"2025-06-20T05:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199065\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T05:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:38:14","slug":"bristol-parents-can-get-food-vouchers-over-the-school-holidays-to-help-feed-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199065\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol parents can get food vouchers over the school holidays to help feed children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Children who get free school meals are eligible for the vouchers worth \u00a315 a week\"ParentsVouchers have been given out since 2020(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

Parents in Bristol can get food vouchers over the school holidays to help feed their children if they receive free school meals.<\/p>\n

The vouchers are for \u00a315 per week per child with almost \u00a34 million put aside by Bristol City Council<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

Vouchers allow parents and carers to choose which supermarket they wish to purchase food over the holidays. They should contact the child\u2019s school to find out about how to access the vouchers, which are paid for from the government\u2019s Household Support Fund.<\/p>\n

\"Liz Liz Kendall, the welfare secretary(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n

In March Liz Kendall, the welfare secretary, slashed the budget for the Household Support Fund by \u00a3100 million. That leaves Bristol with about \u00a31 million less to spend this year, with a total of \u00a37.1 million left over.<\/p>\n

Around 60 per cent of this will be spent on food vouchers, which won\u2019t face budget cuts \u2014 although other support such as debt advice<\/a> will receive less funding this year.<\/p>\n

Throughout the year, the council will spend \u00a33.8 million on food vouchers. This was approved by councillors on the strategy and resources policy committee.<\/p>\n

Graham Clapp, head of revenue and benefits, said: \u201cThat\u2019s a \u00a315 voucher per child per week for the May, October and February half terms; \u00a330 per child for the Christmas holidays and \u00a390 per child for the summer holidays. That works out at about 60 per cent of the fund.\u201d<\/p>\n

Free school meal vouchers have been given to parents over the holidays since 2020.<\/p>\n

As well as the vouchers, there is a range of options for people struggling to afford to buy enough healthy food.<\/p>\n

The council will pay Feeding Bristol, a local charity, \u00a3650,000 this year to help with support such as food pantries and boxes of vegetables.<\/p>\n

Labour<\/a> Councillor Ellie King said: \u201cIt\u2019s quite clear the importance of the work that Feeding Bristol do to support some of the vulnerable in the city. They\u2019ve worked collaboratively with the council for years on food insecurity.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut perhaps even more importantly they work with grassroots organisations to ensure that we\u2019ve got affordable, accessible, nutritious and culturally appropriate food for the most vulnerable people in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Children who get free school meals are eligible for the vouchers worth \u00a315 a weekVouchers have been given…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,3893,748,2266,393,4884,528,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-199065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-labour-party","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114714083888871622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}